Hitler's Madman (1943)

Director
Douglas Sirk

Main cast
Patricia Morison; John Carradine; Alan Curtis; Ralph Morgan; Howard Freeman

Genres
Drama, War

Description
Story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, by Czech partisans and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs.


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